- From: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:10:57 +0200
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "Rudolph Gottesheim" <r.gottesheim@loot.at>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:29:44 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 10/19/11 10:14 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> On 10/19/11 5:54 AM, Rudolph Gottesheim wrote: >>> Why aren't numbers and percentages completely interchangeable? The % >>> sign is just a constant with the value of 1/100 after all. So what 30% >>> really means is the following equasion: 30 x 0.01 = 0.3. I think we >>> should be able to use numbers whereever we can use percentages and vice >>> versa. For example: >>> >>> hsl(90, .3, .9) >>> opacity: 80% >> >> width: 100 > > Or more to the point, "width: 1.0". It would just be confusing, numbers and percentages aren't really interchangeable in practice. If someone says "the number of people living in Norway is about 4700000, showing a yearly growth of 0.3%", that probably means there are now about 14000 more people than last year, not 3/1000 person... But there's also a backwards compatibility issue - in the 'line-height' property percentages and numbers are not equivalent. -- Øyvind Stenhaug Core Norway, Opera Software ASA
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